Interior Colors Can Affect Mood, Ambience

Each of us can tell a warm color from a cold one and understand, even
if you are absolutely ignorant in feng shui, that you should not decorate
the walls of your bedroom with purple paint or make your kitchen sanitary
white. But every time you intend to renovate your home, scrutinizing colorful
palettes trying to envision your hallway in, let us say, “Oriental
spice” or even “Moroccan sand.” Color is the easiest
and most impressive tool for decorating an apartment. All professional
interior designers like to experiment with different combinations of colors.
Today ordinary people can do the same. Internet sites of the large paint
manufacturers give us an opportunity to experiment to our hearts’
content with models of separate rooms, as well as entire buildings to
decide what color combination suits you best. Then, you can estimate the
amount of paint needed and place an order.

For colors and ideas, view artworks of a professional painter Ercole Ercoli who is a well known artist.

Color is known to exert influence not only on the attitude of the apartment,
but on the mood of the people living in it. Although color perception
is individual, there are some general rules according to which color influences
human mind.

It is no secret that bright colors liven us up while neutral ones tranquilize.
Warm sunny colors (red, yellow, and orange) enliven people. They are preferable
for a kitchen, a drawing-room, and a nursery. Cold colors (blue, green,
and violet) bring you relaxation and relief – this is the atmosphere
you possibly want to create in your bedroom. Soft shades of cool colors
add elegance and formality, which allows us to use them in traditional
as well as avant-garde interiors.

Different combinations of colors can make a friendly or official, warm
or cool, disposing to rest or work, harmonious or dissonant. Color, like
a magic wand, can visually enlarge a small room, diminish the furniture,
or raise or lower the ceiling.

Color Combinations

It is important to understand how different colors blend together. You
can use three color schemes to achieve the desired effect: a monochrome
scheme, a scheme based on similar colors, and a scheme based on contrasted
colors.

A monochrome scheme implies various shades of one color only. It can
be any color imaginable. And to enliven the scene, variations of one shade
are used different in their saturation and tone. Monochrome schemes imply
unity, harmony, expanse, and permanence. They always create a soothing
effect. But you should be careful not to make your room tedious. Experts
recommend applying this scheme on the coarse texture: embossed wallpaper
or decorative plaster.

A scheme based on similar colors combines similar colors and similar
shades of the neighboring colors. For example, if your main color is blue,
your scheme will include green, violet, and red shades of blue. But you
can make your scheme more spectacular by adding shades with different
saturation and brightness. Such a scheme will excite your vital force.

A scheme based on contrasted colors is the most audacious and intense.
It combines contrasted or opposed colors, such as yellow and blue or red
and green. Can you imagine your walls being green and your floor being
carmine? How would you like that?

Remember that contrasting colors placed close enough to each other seem
brighter than they really are, that is why you should use such a scheme
carefully and insert colors having different brightness and saturation.
This scheme is ideal for rooms involved in constant activities, such as
a kitchen or a drawing room.

Color Perception

Over time, color perception changes both physically and psychologically.
Like people of the four behavioral patterns, every color has an emotional
charge of its own. Bright colors have a short-term impact that raise your
spirits momentarily, but they quickly fade away or you grow tired of them.

Over time, dark colors acquire fresh nuances with a lasting influence.
Warm colors (red, orange, yellow) in the interior of a room have a tonic
effect, but they should be properly balanced by an opposite color or a
neutral one, dark green for example.

Violet balances any interior. Dark colors can also calm down a wild
temperament while a person possessing a choleric temperament can get on
well with the brightest hue of red.

Red is dynamic, active, exciting, and conspicuous.

Bluish red calm down an energetic person, but it doesn’t make
his choleric temperament passive. If you add some green, it will also
balance the picture.

In our dynamic time, combinations of contrasted colors in the interior
of an apartment are very popular. But even the most audacious experiment
with colors must obey the general rules of color combination. Psychologists
have long noticed that a combination of blue on a white background is
the most pleasant to one’s eye. Red on a yellow background looks
worst of all. But the rest of this chain you will see at the end. In addition,
colors differ in their ability to draw attention. There is a 100% possibility